What do we mean by relative risk as opposed to population attributable risk? Efforts have been made to standardize methods of measurement of risk factors at the global level, including the WHO MONICA Project in the 1980s and 1990s. More recently, the WHO STEPS approach to the measurement of population levels of risk factors provides methods and materials to encourage countries to collect data in a standardized manner’ (Bonita, Beaglehole & Kjellström 2006). What are some of the things that need to be taken into consideration in collecting global health statistics related to disease risk?

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